Jake Archibald

@jaffathecake · Haywards Heath · joined 11 Jul 2008

Developer of sorts at @firefox. No thought goes unpublished. He/him. Also jaffathecake on Mastodon, bsky, Threads etc.

107 569Followers

2 006Following

82 832Posts total

51.1KViews on collected posts

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Jake Archibald@jaffathecake4 Sep

@jaffathecake This is genius, and super creative. Does it auto-wrap comments too? 789 views · 6 likes · 0 reposts · 1 replies Open on X →

Jake Archibald@jaffathecake4 Sep

@jaffathecake You know when you see something so plainly superior to what you’ve been doing your entire life, and you feel head-in-hands stupid for never having thought of it? Yeah. 599 views · 16 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies Open on X →

Jake Archibald@jaffathecake4 Sep

@jaffathecake I know a certain docs site that would enjoy this sort of thing... 329 views · 6 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies Open on X →

Jake Archibald@jaffathecake4 Sep

Playing around with an idea: responsive code. The build script creates up to 5 versions of each code sample using Prettier, and a container query displays the right one. Brotli means the filesize overhead is very small. Live demo: https://t.co/7JhGpvRGYb https://t.co/7SwMSGljD

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20.5K views · 475 likes · 17 reposts · 21 replies Open on X →

Jake Archibald@jaffathecake26 Aug

📝 When and how CSS custom properties are calculated might not be what you expect, and it has a big impact on your styles. Here's how it works: https://t.co/7JhGpvRGYb 7.7K views · 96 likes · 14 reposts · 2 replies Open on X →

Jake Archibald@jaffathecake12 Aug

Ohh, since tight line-heights like `line-height: 1` usually result in negative leading, something like `text-box: trim-both text` will actually increase the size of the box, since it 'trims' the negative leading. TIL. (there'll be a video on this next week) 5.6K views · 39 likes · 3 reposts · 2 replies Open on X →

Jake Archibald@jaffathecake3 Aug

Update: I'm at the CSSWG this week, and I'm hoping to get some/all of these things into the default UA stylesheet https://t.co/aoJ7I6PT3P, and get agreement on a better way to handle scrolling https://t.co/r92AfIAdz0 1.3K views · 3 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies Open on X →

Jake Archibald@jaffathecake28 Jul

I made an accessibility error when coding up some tooltips. Here's where I went wrong, and how you can avoid making the same mistake: https://t.co/bmnCzNTPp4 4.8K views · 47 likes · 6 reposts · 3 replies Open on X →

Jake Archibald@jaffathecake6 Jul

@jaffathecake Next: styleable datalist 🤞 47 views · 1 likes · 0 reposts · 1 replies Open on X →

Jake Archibald@jaffathecake29 Jun

There's an ideal set of sizing constraints for custom <select>, but the CSS is a bit tricky. Here's how to make it work, and a tour of new CSS features along the way. https://t.co/6aH8GGe4DU 9.3K views · 78 likes · 9 reposts · 8 replies Open on X →

Against accounts of the same size

10 posts from the last 90 days, next to the 100K–1M follower range. shown far beyond its own audience, and the audience reacts.

Median views3 045this account6 018median for 100K–1M

Reach, %2.83%this account1.60%median for 100K–1M

Engagement, %1.30%this account0.97%median for 100K–1M

Metric	This account	Median for 100K–1M	Ratio
Median views per post	3 045	6 018	0.51×
Reach (views ÷ followers)	2.83%	1.60%	1.77×
Engagement rate	1.30%	0.97%	1.35×

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Growth & engagement

How the posts we collected actually performed: views and reaction rate post by post, what the audience did with them, and where the follower count goes.

Views per post

9.3K29 Jun

476 Jul

4.8K28 Jul

1.3K3 Aug

5.6K12 Aug

7.7K26 Aug

20.5K4 Sep

329

599

789

Last 10 collected posts, oldest on the left. The scale is logarithmic: one post can outrun the rest a hundred times over.

Engagement rate per post

1.02%29 Jun

4.26%6 Jul

1.16%28 Jul

0.24%3 Aug

0.78%12 Aug

1.45%26 Aug

2.50%4 Sep

1.82%

2.67%

0.89%

Reactions — likes, reposts, replies and quotes — divided by views. Median for 100K–1M accounts is 0.97%.

What the audience does

Likes69.8%767 in total

Reposts4.5%49 in total

Replies3.5%38 in total

Bookmarks22.3%245 in total

Share of every reaction we collected for this account. Replies mean argument, reposts mean endorsement, bookmarks mean the post was worth keeping.

The follower curve appears once this account has two daily snapshots — we take one a day, and this one is on its first.

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